Intro to OTP in Elixir

Intro to OTP in Elixir by Jesse J. Anderson at Full Stack Talks on Thursday September 8th, 2016. Slides available at speakerdeck.com/jessejanderso...

[@zachariahgoldberg6486]

6:27 - "if this didn't fix it - I'm gonna kill myself" 10/10

[@MrFedX]

I’m just getting the hang of the Elixir syntax and was thinking to myself ”now, how do I do all that cool OTP stuff?”. And after watching this talk I’m ready to break new Elixir ground. Thanks for a great talk!

[@romenigld]

My first time when I learned OTP it was weird. I think it took me to get used to the syntax. This explanation help me a lot, thank's!

[@aion2177]

awesome stuff! Thank you :)

[@FlameHue]

Breath man, breath. I know you're nervous, but remember to breath.

[@realchrisbutler]

lol remember to breath

[@batlin]

Breathe man, breathe. I know you're nervous, but remember that "breath" is a noun and "breathe" is a verb.

[@ThrashAbaddon]

Great talk man. Thanks :)

[@alexandermyasoedov4564]

Great talk

[@wulymammoth]

Not bad, Jesse. But this is more just an intro to just one OTP behaviour (design pattern). I think you may have lost a couple of people by just gliding from your initial example to using GenServer. The primary reason is because GenServers are OTP-compliant and the developer gets a ton of things out of the box, like logging, whereas rolling your own does not. I think doing a live demo also would've been better. Elixir/Erlang allows the developer to almost always code the happy-path first which helps solidify the mantra of, "let it crash". If the room wasn't full of developers test-driving Elixir, then at least a note about pattern-matching and demonstrating it quickly would've been nice, too. But all-in-all a pretty good talk :)

[@vertie2090]

I wish I'd get such constructive feedback whenever I talk

[@RichardMatthews.youtube]

Awesome talk! I have one question around if you are storing your data in the process and that process is restarted, do you lose the data that had been stored? Thanks!

[@tikkuboy]

'course you do. That' the point or retarting. the speaker did say "clean slate or clean state"

[@arthurbruel5545]

Yes

[@mieszkogulinski168]

That GenServer reminds me of Redux library for JavaScript ;)

[@btc-btc-net]

Great

[@lzhedmitriy2719]

Everything that isn't Haskell is pure garbage.

[@brangi]

Why ?

[@EricLouisYoung]

Needs to be on a t-shirt

[@vertie2090]

@@EricLouisYoung hahah I'd be the first one to buy that

[@alonzoc537]

Bit over the top. but I would like OTP on Haskell (I know distributed exists but it's not maintained much). And I'd like a Haskell with lips macros and syntax. All of that together would be the perfect language